: preoccupied with or haunted by some idea, interest, etc. : being in a state of obsession
This was because on vacations my father was a man obsessed.—
Bill Bryson
Bill BrysonGatsby the obsessed lover, erecting an empire and stringing it with lights to impress a girl …—Claudia Roth Pierpont
Claudia Roth PierpontShe was at once obsessed with being a good person and brutal to the people who worked for her.—Rachel Abramowitz
Rachel AbramowitzBut it seems we're becoming so obsessed with healthy eating, we are embarking on up to three different diets a year.—Unity Blott
—sometimes used in combinationUnity Blotta sports-obsessed teenager
obsessedly
adverb
"He wants her to be free of him and she doesn't know that she is obsessedly in love with him."
—Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Examples of obsessed in a Sentence
the youngster was so obsessed with video games that he had little interest in playing outside
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More an assembly of eerily seductive images and wordlessly tense interactions than a straight narrative, the film follows an orphaned girl who stumbles upon a film set and becomes obsessed with its cruel and beautiful star.
—Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
But also the Museum of Decorative Arts here in Paris, I was really obsessed with this.
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The video begins with footage of Trapper, a golden retriever obsessed with poking his head under the fence separating him from his best friend—Fritz, the neighbor's dog.
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Although her top lashes are always fluttery and long, TikTok has become especially obsessed with her lower lashes.
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Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
But also the Museum of Decorative Arts here in Paris, I was really obsessed with this.
—Miles Socha For Wwd, ARTnews.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The video begins with footage of Trapper, a golden retriever obsessed with poking his head under the fence separating him from his best friend—Fritz, the neighbor's dog.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Although her top lashes are always fluttery and long, TikTok has become especially obsessed with her lower lashes.
—Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Obsessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsessed. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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